We are pleased to announce that we have brought three adoptees together with their birthparents. Two just in time for Christmas 2006 and a really new success this week!
It is too early to report how the reunions are going, but we will keep you posted in the near future.

Having stopped new registrations for a while, in order to "catch up" Adoptiontracker is pleased to advise that we are now taking on-line regisrations once more.
If you have not already registered now is the time to do so.
Our site works as a central data-base and is therefore reliant on both parties registering. For example, if an adoptee is looking for their birth-parent and register - and the birthparent has registered - we would get a "match". We do not do any "external" searches.
While it relies on both parties being registered it ensures
that our members won't have to go through the awful prospect of being rejected by the people they are looking for because it takes both sides consent and registration to make it happen. Most of this is explained on our web page "What is Adoption Tracker". However, if you do not actually want contact but wish to pass on information i.e. medical information, then please state this on your registration.

THE DATABASE...
The database behind the web site is currently Microsoft Access 2000 format, which, broadly speaking, is theoretically capable of handling around 64 Billion records. In terms of storage, the server currently has the capacity to store approximately 20 Million records. It will be expanded as needed.

We do not have an open list that can be checked, by visitors to the site, as we consider privacy is most important. Our Admin. team do "match checks" every day to ensure that our members can be notified immediately if a match is found. Neither party is given information without the full consent of the other party. Therefore, our registered members wishes are adhered to.

Adoption tracker registrations have tripled over the last few months. Our small but dedicated team are competeley inundated with work - however, please rest assured that when we get "matches" the parties involved will be notified immediately.
We are currently reviewing how we run and operate,  so please keep logging in  to the site to check on further progress.

In the meanwhile, to assist your search, we suggest that you read the article either in "The Press Room" or "Useful Articles" regarding the new BAAF Adoption Search and Reunion web-site.

Adoptee "Adrian" registered with us nearly two years ago. Last month his birthmother registered.
We have brought them together.
Never give up hope........it might take time.....but good results do happen!

We are pleased to announce another success!
Birthmother and son will be re-united in the near future and we hope to bring you a detailed story in the New Year.

Reported on 12th Sept. 2005 -
Further to this we can report that both birthparent and adoptee have had a successful reunion and all goes well with them

We are still hoping to bring you the full story but as it is early days we respect the privacy of those involved.

The Adoptiontracker website is going from strength to strength. We now have thousands of registrations and obviously the more registrations the more likely we are to get a "match". We can also report  some success in reuniting Birthparents with adoptees.
The latest success was not as a direct result of a "match" on  the web site, however, with our continued support a Birthmother has now located and met her son for the first time in 43 years.
The re-union was a wonderful experience for them - and we are delighted to have played a small part in this success.
Adoptiontracker not only assists members with its unique "matching" register but also with help, advice and support for all those seeking reunions.

Hi i am not sure im registered on your site but I had you in my favorites so thought I may have written you. My information is as follows and Im writing to let you know my daughter has been found.
bm iso birthdaughter
born 8-30-1976
anniston ala.  I have found her thank you for your site, also the lady who help me find her is very reasonable with her rates and is very nice her email is sadodade@hotmail.com  or jsdddm@yahoo.com if you could add this to my found post I would appreciate it. Thank you Shelby robinson.
NOTE FROM ADOPTIONTRACKER:
Please note that this is a posting from USA and therefore, although we have listed the researchers email address, we cannot verify her credentials or recommend her services.

My baby girl was born when I was 15 years old. Back in the early 1960s unmarried mothers were shunned and told that the way to 'redeem' themselves was to give their child up for adoption so that it could have a better life. The day I handed over my baby for adoption, I went home and the subject was never mentioned again!

But a birth mother never forgets ... and each and every day after that you wonder how the child is doing, where they are and if they're happy. Birthdays and Christmas are the most painful times.

Well, some forty years after I gave up my baby for adoption, she found me! I am so delighted with the outcome: no more wondering how she is! I can pick up the phone and ask her. We are slowly getting to know each other and the main thing that pleases me so much is that at last I know she has had a good family and a happy childhood.

Sadly, there is no way for a birth mother to contact the child they gave up all those years ago. It's often the child who instigates a search for their 'roots' but so many obstacles are put in the way: Social Services, being very busy with large caseloads, aren't always helpful and often the adoptee spends many years searching unfruitfully, sometimes turning to so-called 'researchers' who rip them off. There are lots of good and reputable researchers - but how can you tell which ones they are?

The AdoptionTracker.com web site has been borne out of the fact that, at one time, my 'daughter' was searching the internet on one site and I was searching a different site, and we may never have been reunited if it hadn't been for a very good researcher who contacted her and was able to find my details. AdoptionTracker wants to link people who register on our large data-base - one web site with one purpose - to re-unite people who are searching for each other.

It took me forty years to make the first positive move and only one month to find what I was looking for – I was one of the lucky ones.

I was blessed with a wonderful family and although I knew from a very early age that I was adopted it was never an issue. My parents told me I was special because I was a 'chosen' baby and so it was something I had certainly thought about, but frankly that's as far at it went. On my first day at school everyone was asked to tell the class who they were and where they came from. I stood there proud as punch and anounced to the world – I was a chosen baby because I was 'ADAPTED', boy did the teacher laugh – I felt quite small.

As I grew older, I convinced myself that my birth mother was probably married with children and that if I found her and made contact it could affect a lot of people and maybe even break up a happy family. I reasoned, that she might have not felt the need to tell anyone of my existence – and sometimes I felt very alone. As the years went by, rather than rock the boat I simply put it to the back of my mind. My birthday was when I did my thinking; but was she thinking about me too?

My parents mentioned it less-and- less as I grew up, but at eighteen I remember my mother telling me that I was now able to apply for my adoption file if I so wished. I felt guilty, like I would be letting them down and so once again I pushed it to the back of my mind. It wasn't until I was in my thirties that it was really mentioned again: After a pleasant evening spent in my parents company, and just as I was ready to leave, dad blurted out, "your mothers name was Sandra, 'Deveraux' I think, and you were called Katerina". That was all he said, but the shock was immense, like a slap across the face with a wet tea towel – I remember it well. Rushing home, I stood in front of the mirror and told myself I couldn't be 'Katerina' I was Jayne!

A few days later I recovered, put it to the back of my mind and carried on until at the age of forty I had a medical problem. It was ill health that made me realise the importance of knowing where we come from and who we are is important, to everyone. I had no knowledge of my genetic family history, which now seemed so important and I decided that I had to make the first move – my journey of discovery.

As an IT journalist specialising in security I was a little suspicious of providing any personal information, about myself or the little I knew about my birth mother, to readily on a web site. However, I thought that maybe with a carefully worded request on a message board and a new email address to protect my identity I could set off on my quest. What I didn't know was that dad had got the details a little confused and so the cards where stacked against me.

It wasn't long before several replies had dropped into my inbox, but I was careful not to accept the information provided at face value. Had I done so I would have contacted more than one complete stranger and apart from being an embarrassing situation for me it may have caused them a lot of distress too. One email that arrived was quite different… The researcher provided some references and didn't ask for payment. She also gave some advice and from my replies gauged a modicum of tact and diplomacy in the way I was preparing to make any initial contact with my birth mother. When I was finally given the information – an address and a phone number – I decided, against my normal approach throughout life of jumping in feet first, to consider my next move carefully.

Several days later and after consultation with a social worker, to whom I explained what I was about to do, I plucked up the courage to address and stamp the letter that I had written. If my other half hadn't picked it up and posted it, who knows whether I'd have ever had the where-with-all to post it myself, but I'll never know the answer to that one, will I?

I included my mobile phone number in the correspondence, adding my birth mothers name and phone number into my phone, just in case. The day after the letter was posted my mobile rang and the name flashing before my eyes was hers; that was something I'll never forget, joy and fear all rolled into one. I did, after what seemed like forever, answer it - of course there's lots more history now, we're getting to know each other and we've started AdoptionTracker.com - but that's another story!